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Admittedly, the title is a bit misleading, but we found it this week exactly like that. The project is no less interesting because of that.

Pawel Kadluczka has connected a stock C64 to the net using an ESP WiFi module. He then built a SignalR client in 6502 assembly, connecting the little Commodore to a service in his Azure cloud setup.

This doesn't sound too exciting at first, because apart from a simple chat client, Pawel didn't implement anything else. However, if you think about it a bit further, a whole range of possible application scenarios emerge, and then the title is not as much clickbait as it looks at first.

Details about the project can be found here, and there is also a link to a short YouTube video in which Pawel demonstrates the setup. 

Very well done Pawel!